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LifeWatch support in 2014 made it possible to make WoRMS more completeAdded on: 2015-07-31 12:18:57 by Vandepitte, Leen

In 2014, LifeWatch funded several activities directly leading to the improvement and further completion of the World Register of Marine Species. LifeWatch has invested in data grants, meetings and workshops, leading to the addition of more than 7.600 new names to WoRMS, a revision of almost 19.000 names and the development of new portals and tools, helping the user and editor community in accessing and utilizing WoRMS. ... [Read more]

An update from the World Register of Deep-Sea Species (WoRDSS)Added on: 2015-07-23 09:37:14 by Horton, Tammy

In December 2012 the deep-sea web portal 'World Register of Deep-Sea Species, WoRDSS’ was launched.
Thanks to the superb efforts of many of the taxonomic editors we already have 24,977 species listed. More than 10% of known marine taxa are found deeper than 500m.
But this is the largest environment on earth and we know there are more... ... [Read more]

Updating the Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS)Added on: 2015-07-07 11:56:02 by De Broyer, Claude

We noticed that in some taxonomic groups there are substantial gaps in the Southern Ocean species lists: most of the recently described species have not been registered, and for which the distribution of many taxa was largely underestimated ... [Read more]

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